Material needed: A chair per musician and a chair per participant, a microphone for the conductor.

Technical constraints: Setting up (one hour and a half) and unsetting (one hour). Need a place for musicians to dress.

Overview

Don't organize the same meeting activity than the others! Offer to your participants an original and creative activity about music!

This musical team-building mainly aims to discover a profession: Conductor of Orchestra.

Convergence between art and power, this profession intrigues. If the artiste is considered to be an unreal human-being, out of the rules and almost antisocial, the conductor should be a guide, a dominating human-being besides being an artist. He must face at the same time abstract art constraints and material ones in the concert organization. An essential character.

Objectives

According to the team-learning experience, this musical team-building highlights the supremacy of the "conductor" within the organizations. Pillar of a project success, he is the one who coordinates the different talents to aim to a unique performance.

"At the heart of the Orchestra" also drives us to understand the role communication plays between the individuals within a group or a society.

A management profession: the conductor of orchestra must manage the time of practice and musicians' time too. It belongs to him to teach the different instrument families to live together, to listen to each other and to create link between themselves.

During this musical teambuilding, musicians are the first conductor's public. Everybody can have its own conception of the performance. The conductor must be technically above reproach, must perfectly know the score, and must keep a coherent musical idea to respect the text and to be understandable for the musicians to follow.

From a purly artistic point of view, it is a pleasure for your ears... Who never dreamt to be in the middle of the orchestra instead of being in the concert room? During this musical team-building, the public feels entranced in a universe which goes over the frame of the company.

Content

"In the heart of the Orchestra" is a friendly concept to which musicians like to participate. It is intended for a public of amateurs or a new public and offers the possibility to discover the orchestra in front of the conductor.

This musical team-building enables the public to meddle in the musicians group. During almost an hour and a half, the public sits within the musicians.

After the description of what is an orchestra, a conductor and his role, the conductor will start the real work.

At first, the conductor invites the public to attend a working session, such as for instance one or two symphony movements, and at the same time to listen to some anecdotes.

Then, the participants go on the stage, beyond the musicians. The orchestra plays the integral work, and the participants can move until three times to have a different acoustic.

This musical team-building doesn't aim to be a music lesson. The practice takes place as if the participants were not here. The conductor won't hesitate to get to the bottom of his work and keeps faithful to his usual way to work.